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Error: Command failed: wmic os get Caption 'wmic' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

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Bug Report

What does actually happen?

Im getting this error after I updated to cordova 9.0.0

C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\execa\index
.js:347
                throw err;
                ^

Error: Command failed: wmic os get Caption
'wmic' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


    at makeError (C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_m
odules\execa\index.js:174:9)
    at Function.module.exports.sync (C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_mod
ules\cordova\node_modules\execa\index.js:338:15)
    at windowsRelease (C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\n
ode_modules\windows-release\index.js:34:24)
    at osName (C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modu
les\os-name\index.js:39:18)
    at new Insight (C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node
_modules\insight\lib\index.js:37:13)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordo
va\src\telemetry.js:26:15)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:701:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:712:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:600:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:539:12)

Information

Command or Code

cordova -v cordova help cordova build android

Version information

Cordova 9.0.0 Window 7 64x

Checklist

[x ] I searched for existing GitHub issues
[x ] I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
[x ] I included all the necessary information above

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:31 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

50reactions

MaryemZOBIcommented, May 10, 2019

thanks @janpio, adding “c:\Windows\System32\wbem” to my path environnement variable solved this problem

6reactions

janpiocommented, May 9, 2019

Do you have c:\Windows\System32\wbem\WMIC.exe? Then this might help: https://superuser.com/a/1434268/25933

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